A first step in Parliament to rehabilitate women convicted of having aborted. The Senate adopted a text message on Wednesday, March 12, Wednesday, March 12, to recognize the “suffering” of women who have illegally practiced abortion before the Velo Law of 1975.
Fifty years after the decriminalization of the interruption of voluntary pregnancy, on March 20 in the Hemicycle a socialist bill carried out by former Women’s Minister Laurence Rossignol will be examined.
Unanimously adopted this Wednesday in the committee, it intends that the State has recognized that the laws in force before 1975 have constituted “an attack on the protection of women’s health, sexual and reproductive autonomy” or even “the rights of women”, and that they have led to “many deaths” and have been sources of “physical and moral suffering.”
“The shame must change the camps”
The author of the text praised on Wednesday a first unanimous vote that “demonstrates that consensus is solid in France for the right to abortion,” Rossignol told Laurence AFP, a year after the registration of abortion in the French Constitution.
This text, “is a way of saying that shame must change the fields, that these laws were criminals for women,” he added.
“While the defense of the right to abortion is questioned in the world, everyone should be counted that there are countries that do not bend,” said Val-de-Marne senator.
Velo’s law is 50 years old
His bill, supported by the Government, also proposes the creation of an “Independent National Commission for the recognition of damages suffered by the women who have aborted”, responsible for contributing to the “collection” and the “transmission of memory” of women forced to clandestine abortions and those who helped them.
This initiative realizes an appeal published in January in Liberation at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Veil Law, which has already requested the rehabilitation of women “unjustly condemned” for having aborted.
It was signed by a collective of political, artistic and feminist personalities, including the writer and the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux, the president of the Anne-Cécile Mailfert Foundation or the actors Anna Mouglalis and Laure Calamy.
Source: BFM TV
